Design Fiction: The Movie

EPSRC Project Highlighting Imagination Research in Design Fiction

To illustrate our Design Fiction reseach this project will produces a standalone documentary film, and the same content presented in a series of video blog posts. Making this work unique, distinguishing it from ‘just another impact film’ – and resonating with design fiction’s future­orientated nature – the film will be told from a future perspective: the interviews that comprise the film will be retrospective, reflecting back on this research and its impact, from a position roughly 10 years from now.

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As output of our work relating to Adoption and Acceptability and the House Training the Internet of Things for the PETRAS Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things Research Hub we have created a guide for designers and developers of IoT products and services who may wish to use Design Fiction as part of their design processs.
In this little book we explain:
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At this years CHI 2016 in San Jose CA, USA, which is considered the top conference for Human-Computer Interaction, Imagination presented three paper relating to its research on design fiction.
Pushing the limits of design fiction: the case for fictional research papers available here.
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Design fiction is an emerging ‘speculative design’ practice, whose name was coined by sci­fi author­ come­design commentator Bruce Sterling in 2005 before being made popular by industrial designer Julian Bleecker...Read full update